Når det omsorgsfulde menneske spænder ben. Om paradokset i implementeringen af sund livsstil blandt udsatte borgere

Abstract

Artiklen diskuterer spørgsmålet: Hvordan påvirker det sociale møde mellem kommunalt ansatte og borgere implementeringen af sundhed og fysisk aktivitet? Artiklen er baseret på et specialet: 'Det sympatiske paradoks i mødet mellem system og borger'. When the meeting between the social worker and the socially exposed citizen frames the process of implementing physical activity, it becomes obvious how this meeting is affected by opposite attitudes towards the steering which influences the social meeting. The knowledge of health promotion among the social workers is taken for granted by the management. Therefore no education on this subject is provided for the employees. Consequently unevenness occurs in the role allocation between the social workers and the citizens despite an effort to meet the citizen at his level. This has an inhibiting effect on the implementation of physical activity. It is forgotten that not only is the self-steering of the citizens important, but also the self-steering of the social workers. In the process of implementation the employees have been neglected. This affects the process of change among the socially exposed citizens.

Client Participation and Conditionality: Navigating Conflicting Normative Demands in Employment Services

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“…Similar to other European countries (Gjersøe, 2016), several reforms have expanded conditionality to new target groups that were hitherto deemed too vulnerable and outside the reach of active labor market policies (Nielsen, 2015). These changes have been accompanied by the introduction of an increasingly "optimistic" understanding of those vulnerable target groups, emphasizing their resources and potential rather than their problems and vulnerabilities (Nielsen, 2019). The inclusion of new and vulnerable target groups for active policies has gone hand in hand with the introduction of more integrative tools for employment services, and recent reforms of the system have included attempts to establish integrated services and holistic approaches to clients (Larsen & Andersen, 2019).…”

“It’s not even the leaders out here who have any say at all in how long they’re gonna have to wait”: A study of waiting time, power, and acceptance

“…Introduced in 2014, utility jobs aimed both to include citizens into work in communities and teach them the value of work. Moreover, similar to activation policies in the US and UK (see e.g., Brodkin, 2017; Soss et al, 2011a, 2011b; Sainsbury, 2017), the aim was to solve the “passivity” of the unemployed by imposing work obligations upon them (Nielsen, 2014, 2019). However, citizens and frontline workers encounter each other in a unique organizational and occupational context (see Caswell et al, 2017; Van Berkel, 2020), which makes waiting time a salient feature of the activation.…”